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He’ll never get it…. https://reverb.com/item/87323854-the-heritage-marvbird-h-357-pelham-blue?utm_source=rev-ios-app&utm_medium=ios-share&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=87323854

I put a Duncan JB in the bridge position last night and discovered that it is a mahogany body with a carved maple cap that has the Ash veneer on top of that. I should have taken a pic. I forgot. lol. 😆

I love a good Floyd rose. Over the years I have learned how to set them up properly and they can be lots of fun

Well I finally had time to dive into this guitar today. I have mixed feelings about it. The construction/fit and finish are quite good. Fretwork is pretty good too. The electronics are very decent. I’m not exactly in love with the bridge pickup. I love the neck pickup. The push/pull coil taps are useless to me. I’ll never use them. But the pots have good taper (mini pots). The toggle switch is very tight. I’m able to get a pretty low action. There were 2 main problems. One, the tremolo springs rubbed the bottom of the cavity when you did a divebomb….thats not good!! So I had to take a wood file and file away some wood inside the trem cavity. Two, the Floyd would not stay in tune. Cheap springs!!!! I set it up for 9s. Came from the factory with 10a. !!! I bought a set of Floyd Rose noiseless springs….problem solved. The neck carve is a medium C. It’s close to a 60s neck. The satin finish is smooth as a baby’s bottom. Fast n smooth. The sculpted heel joint is great for upper register access. It’s light and quite resonant. Playability is quite good. Neck has almost no relief and sets up quite nicely. If I wasn’t a DIY person, I probably would’ve instantly boxed it back up for a refund. The springs rubbing on the back cavity, in my opinion, is a huge drop of the ball by QC! That is inexcusable, especially for a Guitar of that design and style! And is obviously a playability and Tone problem because when the springs rub against the wood like that, it obviously makes a really bad noise that disrupt the vibration of the strings! As far as the Tremolo not staying in tune, I think it was a combination of junk strings and bad springs. I put a nice little dab of BIG BENDS nut sauce on each pivot point of the Tremelo before I installed the new strings on it and between that and the new springs, I am not having any tuning issues at all. And I do some pretty heavy dive bombs with it. After a lot of TLC, this is actually a really nice guitar. Out of the box, it was not. And I blame Heritage for not checking for quality control issues, this Guitar was in Kalamazoo before it shipped off to me so they had every opportunity to double check the quality control of the Chinese factory, and obviously they chose not to! If you’re going to charge $1200 for a Chinese made guitar with the Heritage name on it, the QC needs to be A LOT BETTER!!!!

If you could score one for $2500… WOW. That would be amazing. lol.

Against my better judgement, I’m gonna try one of these. I will report back.

I would like to be able to take one for a test drive.

https://mannys.com/products/heritage-guitars/ascent-plus-collection-limited-edition-h-150-ash-top-fr-electric-guitar-matte-black/ I gotta admit, I am very, very interested in something like this! But For a Chinese made guitar, I believe the price point is far too high for what it is? Am I wrong? I love the look, I love the options that it has on it, but I think it is a little bit overpriced, IMO. I would like to know what kind of neck carve it has on it. I’m assuming it probably has a slimmer, 60s style neck on it? I think it’s beautiful! I really do. I think Heritage is just fishing right now, trying to see what the market will withstand. It probably cost them $150 to make that Guitar, so they are testing the waters so to speak. At least that’s how I see it.

Ohhhh. The good ol days

Heritage back then, RARELY ever put tops like that on a 150/157. They must have had a source for special billets for custom builds like this??

Oh yesssssss

Thanks Lyle!!! I’m going to sell a couple of my other heritages off just to keep this one ☝️

Oh yes!! It plays and sounds so damm good

Say what you will…. I think this might be a keeper

I installed my 70s DiMarzios in it today!!! Wow!!! I love these pickups!!!

It’s Ned

Does Lance still have that? I can’t remember.

Took it outside yesterday…beautiful day in SW Michigan

I’m pretty sure someone here on this group owns this guitar now? If you do, i’m looking to find out what the sticker on the inside of the control plate says as far as a model designation. Thank you!

Thanks Tim!!!!

I agree, Rich, I think that era of H157 head stocks were the classiest looking headstocks in the Guitar world!

FIXED MY NUT 🥜 😂 FIXING THE NUT…on the 2006 Heritage H157 Custom Quilt!!! The D, G and B slots were VERY LOW!! Now, I could have paid someone $100 for a new nut job??? I could have done the ol superglue and baking soda fix??? I could have made a new nut myself (although it probably wouldn’t have been too pretty). NOPE. I decided to use multiple layers of copper shielding tape to “jack up” the factory nut. There were two main reasons why this set up with this nut did not work for the Guitar… 1…Those three slots were too low and they were giving a little bit of buzz on the first Fret. 2….The trust rod needed to be tightened a little bit to straighten the neck out a little more and of course, if you do that that lowers the strings closer to the first Fret, so that certainly was not going to work with the way the nut was setting. So, shimming the nut up just a few thousands of an inch, was the least aggressive solution to the problem! And it worked perfectly, as I knew it would! The guitar actually played pretty good as it was but now it is even better! AND I DID ALL THAT BEFORE 8am 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I’m trying to contact the seller to see if maybe that was his brother‘s name underneath there? Whoever wrote those labels out in that era really needed to practice on their penmanship. Lol.

Thanks fellas!!! This is a very special 157. A great representation of what Heritage was capable of back then.